School bus driver in Pasadena crash dies

Funeral for school bus driver who suffered medical emergency to be held Wednesday afternoon.

A county school bus driver that suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel earlier this month in Pasadena has died.

Catherine Herr, 67, died on Saturday, according to an obituary posted on the website for the McCully-Polyniak Funeral Home in Pasadena.

Herr was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in critical condition after suffering a medical emergency behind the wheel of her school bus around 6:45 a.m. on Feb. 10.

The bus went off the road in the 8400 block of Geneva Road, in Pasadena's Riviera Beach community, and struck a fence. Two Northeast High School students were on board at the time. They were not injured.

One of the students called 911, a county fire department spokesman said shortly after the crash. The bus was on its way to the school at the time.

"School bus drivers are an integral part of our Anne Arundel County Public Schools family, and they do far more than simply transport students back and forth to their schools," county schools spokesman Bob Mosier said by email Wednesday morning. "Ms. Herr loved her job, and was in turn well-loved by her colleagues as well as the students she transported and their parents."